hey guys,
even more news from the packing front. Today I had a beautiful walk through the city - three hours in rain, mist, fog and cold. I loved it though - all people I met were relaxed and warm and friendly, you would not guess it by the weather. I found a solution for every problem, I paid all bills, I’ll get my transcript of the grades sent home, I am ready to go home.
After the time that I have been living here, it feels really strange to think about leaving and not coming back… i mean, this has become sort of a home over the months. Some things I will miss - the courses, the professors, being surrounded by MBA students, travelling, being completely immersed in another culture. But in the end, it will be good to come home for a change.
I will have to give up my cable modem tomorrow, I don’t know when I will get the last posting out to you guys. I’ll be back in Germany on Sunday morning, give me a call if you feel like it.
That will be strange… being back in Hamburg… I guess the first thing I will do is cruising around in my car with the music loud, then call some people, play XBOX, and then fall asleep, completely jetlagged. Maybe I’ll fall asleep directly 
It really goes on my nerves. I have done nothing else for the last days, and still it comes together sooo slow!
Still have to get someone motivated to lend me some hands and a car to get the boxes out to the post office, to get to Wal Mart and to get the household stuff to the Ministry (we decided to donate a good portion of the stuff, as there is not enough time to sell it after our successors decided not to keep up the tradition and buy the stuff we bought from the poeple that were here before us).
Apart from that I am bored and looking forward to get home. All that running around and all that stress just because I don’t have a car here… that really bothers me. I would be done and ready by now if I just had the means of transportation, but now I have to either pay myself to death for a taxi or beg the hell out of my classmates, hoping one of them is still in town (I just sent out a mail doing the latter).
Published on December 13, 2005
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There I have it. Trying to get some sleep at 2:45 am - and I can’t. Tried silence - no. Tried music - no. Tried a podcast - no. Tried light and darkness, with covers, without covers. I just can’t sleep.
The tricky thing is: I have to get up at 9, 10 latest. There is a heck of a lot of stuff to do. And what will happen when I stay up? Exactly. I’ll fall asleep when the sun comes up, sleep until 3pm and the day will be blasted. That happened to me today. My biortythm is a mess… I really have to get it back to normal. OK, I’ll give it another try. Maybe my brain will get so bored thinking that it’ll give me a break for once.
Gosh, I am busy. I spent yesterday washing _all_ the clothes I have with me. Except for those I had on, so no interesting scene in the washing room, sorry. I have made pictures of how I used the entire flat as a drying rack for the stuff that was still wet once it came out of the dryer.
Today the excitement continued!!!
T-Shirt-folding Japanese style (learn it here), test packing of the first bags. Evaluating if I need to send one or two packets via mail back to Germany. Starting getting together all the stuff that will stay here. Trying to find someone where I can store all the stuff until our successors from WHU arrive.
Attention: Highlight of the day!
Find every penny lying in the apartment and sort them by age. Be happy about the fact that you have at least one penny from each year from 1970 to 2005. Cheer, because your oldest penny is from 1954. Be puzzled why some pennies from the mid 80s look better than some from last year. Take photos. Laugh at yourself because you actually spent half an hour sorting old, smelly pennies.
Rest of the fabulous day:
Sorting paper, clothes, stuff. Emptying out whatever can be emptied already (Telephone that was never used: YES! TV, toaster, broadband router: NO!)
Now:
Writing blog entries in a stupid way. This sentence no verb.
Cheers!